I'm doing some development on a dev server of ours for a site that's currently live on another server. They have their own server with a SQL Server database holding the data for the live site. So ...

An improved interface and new features make SQL Server 2005 a promising upgrade Microsoft has released the second beta of SQL Server 2005, and it looks to be a major step forward.

IIRC you can make SQL Server (for one) warn you whenever you use something non-ANSI; IIRC the number of non-ANSI things that one takes for granted is quite depressing.